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It's astounding that this exact scenario happened at least four times (lemmy.world)

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[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 8 months ago (3 children)

In Germany, we differentiate E- and U-Musik. E (Ernst) means "serious" and is classical music and stuff. U (Unterhaltung) = entertainment and is everything African American inspired (Jazz, Rock, Pop, hip hop, ...). This difference basically exists to devalue everything that isn't central European in origin

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah... Mozart's compositions definetly are only serious and not for entertainment at all. Stuff like... checks notes "Leck mich im Arsch" or the original text of "Bona Nox". /s

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Adam Neely has a good video on this. Music is constantly judged on how well it conforms to "the harmonic style of 18th century European musicians"

https://youtu.be/Kr3quGh7pJA

[–] match@pawb.social 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

y'all should stop differentiating them

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

True and it's far less common nowadays I think. I haven't heart it for a while. I remember in school our teacher discussed it critically but not from a CRT perspective but more like "some classical music is quite danceable and some blues can get quite serious", not "this is a eurocentric concept and we should stop it"